FMARS Crew Status Report #1 – 7 July 2001 – 10:00 PM MDT

Six of us entered the hab yesterday evening. Stephen finally landed at Haughton today. In short, we are still catching up on the heavy delays imposed mainly by the unseasonably late departure of snow this year, by some aspects of the hab build out effort, by visits of officials, and by an accident. Tonight, we are finally all in the hab: it’s 3:45 am and Rainer just joined us. Spirits are high and we are eager to begin sim in earnest. We are planning to be in sim from now on, with some occasional necessary breaks, in particular to allow Steve to set up our overall comms infrastructure over the next few days.